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All American Beauty: The Experiences of African American, European American, and Japanese American Women with Beauty Culture in the Mid-twentieth Century Untied States
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | McAndrew, Jennifer M. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Title of Document: ALL-AMERICAN BEAUTY: THE EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN, EUROPEAN AMERICAN, AND JAPANESE AMERICAN WOMEN WITH BEAUTY CULTURE IN THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY UNITED STATES Jennifer Malia McAndrew, Ph.D., 2008 Directed By: Professor Alfred Moss, Department of H istory This study documents how shifting attitudes regardi ng female display were negotiated between the start of World War II in 1941 and the c lose of the 1950s. During the middle decades of the twentieth century, multiple p layers including women, men, employers, and the U. S. government, defined beauty , charm, poise, and grace as essential characteristics of womanhood, creating wh at I term an all-American beauty ideal. By examining this ideal as it functioned in the lives of African American, European American, and Japanese American women, I a rgue that each of these groups inscribed its own notions of gender, power, race, and nationalism into representations of the female form. Analyzing this ideal as it operated within and outside of American borders, my study demonstrates th many ways in which beauty culture functioned as a powerful mechanism to expan d or diminish the cultural, economic, and political agency of various social gr oups in the middle decades of the twentieth century. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/8117/umi-umd-5286.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
